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Texas Is the Dry Run for the GOP’s Dismantling of Electoral Democracy

As Lone Star State Republicans prepare to do Trump’s bidding, expect the GOP’s gerrymandering war to expand.

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Aug 09, 2025
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by Ana Marie Cox

Texas Representative Gene Wu speaks in front of Democratic members of Congress and Texas House Democrats during a news conference, after they left their state to deny Republicans the quorum needed to redraw the state’s 38 congressional districts.
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As Texas Democrats fled the state to protest a redistricting map drawn at Donald Trump’s request—a map designed to all but shut Democrats out of congressional power—I spent the day at a public hearing where the only people left to debate the map were the Republicans who drew it and the everyday Texans beggin…

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